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Elder J. P. Morgan partners ate their dinners elsewhere, but the firm sent young S. Parker Gilbert, whilom Agent General for Reparations, to a banquet at Manhattan's tall-towered Waldorf-Astoria last week for Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
...General Motors' Sloan, General Electric's Gerard Swope, Ford's Sorensen, Pennsylvania Railroad's Atterbury, Baldwin Locomotive's Houston, Thomas A. Edison's son Charles, Theodore Roosevelt's son Kermit, Owen D. Young, Henry Morgenthau Sr. and dowagers galore. As Comrade Litvinoff waddled in to take his place beneath the crossed Red Flag and Stars and Stripes the "Star-Spangled Banner" brought all to their feet and few sat down when the organ switched into the "Internationale...
...Robins. Host at the banquet was genial Soviet-famed Engineer Col. Hugh L. Cooper as president of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. Guests paid $5.50 per plate for a dinner which included Beluga Caviar spread thin on toast.† Borsch (beet soup) and Filet of Beef Stroganoff. Guest Litvinoff said that Host Cooper's services "are already inscribed in the geography of the Soviet Union and endure in the concrete of Dnieprostroy" Dam, but he singled out as "probably the oldest friend of the Soviet Union in America" none other than that dramatic victim of amnesia, Col. Raymond...
...Colonel Robins," cried Comrade Litvinoff, "was the first to discern health and vitality in what other people believed to be a stillborn child...
...before Litvinoff and Russia could be attended to there was a concert in the East Room. Naval and military aides (in full-dress uniform because as Mrs. Roosevelt said "they look better that way and it doesn't cost anything to put it on") ushered the guests to the spindling gold chairs, set 20 rows deep. On the platform was the famed gold piano. Mrs. Roosevelt introduced the musicians who had played for her in Albany. They were the Morgan Sisters, a harp-violin-piano combination, who came out dressed in crinoline to play a 50-minute program which...